Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Red Wine for Heart Care

There many medicines that people created in order to give care for our hearts. Among the very popular technique to give care to our heart is to have a healthy diet and exercise. But as time pass by, there are many studies that resulted to the manufacturing of artificial drugs to care for our hearts. But there are many researchers and health specialist said that wine, which is an alcohol drink has a very good effect to our health especially with our heart.

According to Wikipedia, Resveratrol is found in the skin of red grapes and is constituent in red wine. Because of resveratrol, some studies indicated that red wine do increase the formation of good cholesterol and decrease bad ones. Thus, drinking red wine can help us for caring our hearts, especially those with heart diseases.

But as what everybody always said, "Too Much is Bad for your Health". So just drink moderately and responsively.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

5-minute Fitness Test

There are many way of determining how fit is our body. Now, isn’t it nice if we can easily tell whether we are fit or not. Here are some steps to find out how fit you are without having to spend a big amount of your time having your own fitness instructor:

1.Stand in front of the stair.
2.Step up once, with the left foot first. Step down with the right foot first. Repeat for ½ minutes.
3.Without stopping, change the leg so you step up with your right ad complete the 3 minutes.
4.Sit down and find your pulse. Count your pulse for 15 seconds.
5.Multiply the result by 4 to have your pulse per minute.
6.Check for the final result below.

Rating-Very Good/Good/Ok/Poor/Very Poor
Men-<110/110-124/125-140/141-155/>155
Women-<116/116-130/131-146/147-160/>160
Boys-<120/120-130/131-150/151-160/>160
Girls-<124/124-134/135-154/155-164/>165